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Hear musician and author Michael Patrick F. Smith read from acclaimed book, "The Good Hand," perform original songs, and answer questions from the audience at an author event at Zandbroz Variety in Fargo.

2/26/2004: Today is the birthday of a sweet-spirited woman, Nancy Hendrickson; she was born in 1886 in a house built of cottonwood by Nancy’s Swedish father, Sone Christenson. They homesteaded on the Heart River where, just 10 years before, the 7th Cavalry crossed on their way to the Little Bighorn.

3/5/2004: This is the time of year we thumb through seed catalogues, but many of those seeds are available only because of the work of one of the most famous gardeners to come out of North Dakota – Fannie Mahood Heath, who was born on this day in 1864 in Wykoff, Minnesota. At the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair, a picture of Fannie was exhibited with the following title, “Fannie Mahood Heath: The Woman who Made North Dakota Flowers Famous the World Over.”

3/12/2004: Tomorrow is the birthday of Elizabeth Jane Haaby Anderson, a singer-songwriter born in 1930 in Roseau, Minnesota. She is the mother of country star Lynn Anderson, who we talked about February 3rd.

3/13/2004: On this day in 1802, the first non-Native American child in what is now North Dakota was born. The baby girl was born to Pierre Bonza and his wife, black slaves of Alexander Henry, Jr. The birth took place at Henry’s Pembina fur-trading post.

3/14/2004: In the days before refrigeration, one important winter task was ice harvesting. While today’s icehouses are associated with fishing, a hundred years ago, icehouses were insulated buildings in which ice was packed in sawdust; if the sawdust was dry enough, the ice would keep throughout an entire summer without refrigeration.

3/18/2004: Today’s story is about teamwork – in a manner of speaking.

3/15/2004: On March 14th, 1941, the United State Weather Bureau forecast that North Dakota would have “increasing cloudiness... followed by occasional light snow at night and on Saturday and possibly in extreme west (today); no decided change in temperature.”

3/19/2004: Today marks the anniversary of one of the most memorable basketball games in North Dakota history – it’s often referred to as David vs. Goliath.

3/20/2004: On this weekend in 1996, the movie “Fargo” premiered at the Fargo Theatre. It went on to be nominated for best picture at the Academy Awards that year, and news agencies descended on Fargo to cover the history-making night.